Mandatory Profiles - Local
Posted: 01-08-2009, 03:32 PM
account, so that when it logs off any changes made to it are "lost". It was
very easy in XP:
1. Create a folder on the local drive, C:\LocalUser\Profile.
2. Create a LocalUser account and point the profile to C:\LocalUser\Profile.
3. Log on with the LocalUser, then set any settings you want.
4. Log off the LocalUser account.
5. Rename the C:\LocalUser\Profile\ntuser.dat and ntuser.dat.log to
ntuser.man and ntuser.man.log
6. Rename the C:\LocalUser\Profile to C:\LocalUser\Profile.man
7. Go back into User manager and set the LocalUser profile path to
C:\LocalUser\Profile.man
That was all it took.
In Windows Vista none of that works.
1. Vista seems to ignore whatever you put in for the User's Profile Path
value. So even if I set it to C:\LocalUser\Profile, Vista keeps the profile
in C:\Users\LocalUser.
2. I have to use the Move Profile part of the User Manager in Vista to move
the profile to C:\LocalUser\Profile.
3. Renaming the profile folder, and ntuser files to .man version Vista
ignores that, I believe partly because it ignores what you have for the
profile path in the account to begin with.
I've followed the instructions in the following article:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc766489.aspx
for setting up a mandatory profile, but those steps do not work, or at least
they do not work for local accounts.
Any help on this would be appreciated.



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